Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born in a ...

BASIC creators John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. The mainframe isn’t the only technology hitting the ripe old age of 50 this year. On May 1st, the BASIC programming language, first developed by Dartmouth ...

Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman are the recipients of the 2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award, which is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science." The award carries a $1 million prize, with ...